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East India Landmine Blast Kills 3 Border Guards

© Flickr / lukexmartinA border guard in Attari Border Crossing, India
A border guard in Attari Border Crossing, India - Sputnik International
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Three Indian Border Security Force (BSF) troops were killed in a landmine blast in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on Wednesday, local media reported.

After an explosion in Imphal, Manipur, India, 2009. File photo - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) The Odisha Sun Times reported that three BSF soldiers stumbled on a landmine while returning to base camp in the southern Odisha district of Malkangiri.

The publication says six injured BSF guards were taken to a hospital at district headquarters.

National media attribute the blast to an ambush by ultra-left Maoist insurgents commonly referred to as Naxals or Naxalites. Odisha and several other eastern and central Indian states are known to be Naxal operation grounds.

Last week, an exchange of fire in another northeast state Jharkhand led to the deaths of a police driver and a suspected Naxal commander.

In Chhattisgarh, a western neighbor of Odisha, four police officers were shot and killed last month.

The Naxals have been fighting the Indian government since the 1960s. According to Global Research, around 10,000 people have been killed in the Naxalite insurgency in India since 1980.

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